It just gives god an excuse to put you in Hell.
2007-05-06 14:28:03 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Modern Christian dogma is absurd and self-contradictory.
The myriad answers that you will get to this question will testify to that.
2007-05-06 14:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
No, it gives you a chance to choose whatever life you want for yourself. You are free. Your choices will have consequences, but that's up to you. Hell is nothing more than a complete and absolute separation from God. And the only person who can separate you from God is... YOU. And again, with free will, that is something you can choose freely. It's all up to you, buddy. God doesn't need excuses, we do that well enough on our own.
2007-05-06 14:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by Nathan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look in Genesis 1:26 God decided to make man in His image. His image is the Trinity in completion. The Lord is a tri-unal being just as we are. We are spirits that possess a soul that lives in a body. Our soul consists of our mind (thoughts), will (conscience, our source of right and wrong, it where decisions are really made), and emotions (feelings). Now if that doesn't shed some light then I don't know what else to say. This explains free will.
2007-05-06 14:48:26 · answer #3 · answered by ru4rael 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not! How about this?
Think of our own children. They have free will apart from us. With that - they learn the lessons that we teach them - it is their choice to either make the choices of the lessons we taught them. obviously we want the absolute best for our children, however we cannot truly make their choices for them. We have no mind control over them, we cannot live their lives for them......make sense?
We are God's children, we have that free will - ALL of us - to make the choice to follow Him or not. It is of MORE value when we do BECAUSE we have free will.
If you had a group of people - say you repesent this fantastic product that fulfills so many needs - and you know the people in the group have free will - but you know that they need what you are represent - how much more valuable would their decision to agree with you about your product be because you saw the need and conveyed it to them and they CHOSE agree with you? If it was a given that you could just go up to anyone whether they needed your product or not and they would agree with you - what value would THAT hold to you?
Free will is awesome! We make the choice - nobody else.
It is what we DO with that free will that depicts what our end will be.
2007-05-06 14:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
With free will, our existence on Earth becomes more challenging. To avoid be cast into hell, we must fight against the devil and our own sin. This struggle and this strugle alone makes life meaningful. God gave us the meaningful existence as a free gift.
2007-05-06 14:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by Gone 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, He gave us a free will. We were created for His pleasure and for His purposes, so consider this life a gift. The perfect love comes with a choice.
No,He does not want anyone to go to hell but He allows it if you do not want to be with Him. He is waiting and waiting, everything happens in His timing. He wants more people to choose Him. : )
2007-05-06 14:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think free will starts with us
we are free to choose to believe in a god, a hell, a heaven, sin, gospel, concept of infidel/pagan/heathen, and we can reject things that hurt societies or promote violence and injustice
2007-05-06 14:33:41 · answer #7 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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Can't God do what he wants whith his own things. Free will in-itself isn't bad but it is the choices that are made that can be bad with bad results.
As for an excuse, it dosen't reconcile with the ransom provisions.
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2007-05-06 15:10:40 · answer #8 · answered by de v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where do you get this hell thing from? Please read your Bible!
The word hell is used in the KJV as grave or common grave. There is no torment, just a sleep like, unconscious state.
Rom 6:7 says,"For he that is dead is freed from sin." Thus no reason whatsoever exists for torments since all the dead are sinless!
For the condition of the dead and more, see: http://www.bythebible.page.tl/
Soul[Immortal & Animal, What?] Man’s Spirit
Condition of the Dead:[ One & Two, Special Scriptures ]
Links:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Soul__Immortal-f---Animals-f-.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Soul__What-is-it-f-.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Man-h-s-Spirit.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/1-.--Dead__the-condition-of--.---.---.--.htm
2007-05-06 14:37:38 · answer #9 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you can show me rationally how you get free-will out of , "Do not eat of the fruit......", I'll admit you have a point. Until then, keep 'em coming. This actually gets kind of fun after a while.
2007-05-06 15:05:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's God... if he wanted to put you in Hell... he could have bypassed the whole "Free Will" thing... and just put you there directly... he doesn't need your permission...
2007-05-06 14:35:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋